User talk:Pc port

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Just an FYI I reverted the edits you made to Shiva Ayyadurai. First, the source you added was to a wikipedia article. When we want to point to a wikipedia article in text you can just link it e.g. Telenet. If it's a reference it should be to something external to wikipedia, preferably a reliable source. That's fixable though. The other reason I reverted it is the section on that page itself isn't improved by digressions on prior art for email (there's a lot, see email). Rather it's mainly about the claim and responses to it in the press. Protonk (talk) 03:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Understood. Though, if that section is mainly about the claim and responses to the claim, I feel that some information about the Telemail example I gave, or mention of Ray Tomlinson (ARPANET email, circa 1971) is not tangental nor a digression, but relevant as an opposing view under the section heading "Development of EMAIL, ensuing controversy". If you don't like what I added, surely the section merits some more information about the controversy itself with some references to prior art. Pc port (talk) 14:13, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The problem with adding prior art independent from the claim is that we can very easily insert our own reasoning rather than a summary of what the sourcing says. To pick a contrary example, I removed some material about "systems visualization" from the same article. In that case there were some sources which discussed Ayyadurai's role in the discipline but much of the content was things related to systems visualization in general and not Ayyadurai. For the email section we already have sources on prior art (see the Boston magazine article or the Haigh blog post) which specifically address the claims made. Protonk (talk) 15:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC)